2014 World Cup Qualifying thread

After Sri Lanka have been knocked out I'm going to support Mauritius as my uncle is Mauritian.

Do you know anything about the Mauritian national team Weather and whether they can compete with Liberia?

Kuled wrote:egypt should qualify

That's not the final round. The winners of each group of the 10 groups, will qualify to the final round. The final round will be a 2 legged playoff to determine the 5 teams that go to the World Cup.

Currently, our national team is not good. But considering how well our U20 and Olympic teams are performing, we should start injecting new blood into our senior team. I can see Egypt easily qualifying to the final round. But it will all depend on who we face in the final playoff to see if we go to the World Cup.

CTFC~ced wrote:After Sri Lanka have been knocked out I'm going to support Mauritius as my uncle is Mauritian.

Do you know anything about the Mauritian national team Weather and whether they can compete with Liberia?

No matter how much you hate the FIFA World Rankings it really says no. It is not perfect but it can give you a ballpark estimate how good or bad a team is. Liberia is ranked 63rd and Mauritius is ranked 195th.

Also Mauritius likes to play a lot of friendlies versus club teams but have little success in these games. A few recent positive results were a 1-0 victory over Petite Rivière Noire SC (a team in the Mauritius league) and also a 1-0 victory over the Fulham Academy played in Mauritius. They also lost 0-2 to Mayotte which is a French territory that is not a FIFA member.

England 14-0 San Marino

Not quite sure why I forgot about all of this but some games in Asia are going on right now and no huge upsets yet. At one point Singapore was beating China but things have turned around and China should win it. Also in CONCACAF for some unknown reason the Bahamas decided to withdraw from qualifying so that is another team eliminated.

Weather130 wrote:Not quite sure why I forgot about all of this but some games in Asia are going on right now and no huge upsets yet. At one point Singapore was beating China but things have turned around and China should win it. Also in CONCACAF for some unknown reason the Bahamas decided to withdraw from qualifying so that is another team eliminated.

Australia came from behind against Thailand to win 2-1.

Canada and Saint Lucia are 1-1.

Syria were disqualified after fielding an ineligible player in the 2nd qualifying round thus Tajikistan were then reinstated to the tournament.

ineligible as in not Syrian? Oh and El Salvador and the Dominican Republic are tied at 0(seriously ).

Football is the last of Syria's worries right now.

Now that qualifying is underway it is time to start the top goal scorer list. Players in Bold are still in the tournament.

Deon McCaulay Belize 7 goals
Lê Công Vinh Vietnam 7 goals
Hassan Abdel-Fattah Jordan 5 goals
Lesly St. Fleur Bahamas 5 goals
Nasser Ali Al-Shamrani Saudi Arabia 4 goals
Peter Byers Antigua and Barbuda 4 goals
Yousef Nasser Kuwait 4 goals
Yang Xu China 4 goals
Park Chu-Young South Korea 4 goals

Iraq have been banned from playing home matches due to security.

With so many games being played today I feel this thread needs to be updated. Today the Dominican Republic, Cayman Islands, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Curaçao, and the US Virgin Islands have been eliminated from World Cup qualification.

International break is over so it is time to update the top scorers table. Along with their national team I will list their club team. Players in bold are still in the tournament.

Peter Byers Antigua and Barbuda (Los Angeles Blues) 8 goals
Deon McCaulay Belize (Deportes Savio) 7 goals
Lê Công Vinh Vietnam ( Hà Nội F.C.) 7 goals
Tamorley Thomas Antigua and Barbuda (Antigua Barracuda FC) 5 goals
Hassan Abdel-Fattah Jordan (Al-Wahdat SC) 5 goals
Lesly St. Fleur Bahamas (Bears F.C.) 5 goals
Park Chu-Young South Korea (Arsenal) 5 goals
Jean-Eudes Maurice Haiti (Lens) 5 goals
Blas Pérez Panama (Indios de Ciudad Juárez) 5 goals
Nasser Ali Al-Shamrani Saudi Arabia (Al-Shabab Riyadh) 4 goals
Yousef Nasser Kuwait (Kazma) 4 goals
Yang Xu China ( Liaoning Whowin F.C.) 4 goals
Randolph Burton Antigua and Barbuda (Antigua Barracuda FC) 4 goals
Josh Kennedy Australia (Nagoya Grampus) 4 goals
Simeon Jackson Canada (Norwich City) 4 goals
Erick Ozuna Dominican Republic (Club Barcelona Atlético) 4 goals
Cristian Gonzáles Indonesia (Persisam Putra Samarinda) 4 goals
Luis Tejada Panama (Juan Aurich) 4 goals

Weather130 wrote:With so many games being played today I feel this thread needs to be updated. Today the Dominican Republic, Cayman Islands, Barbados, Saint Lucia, Curaçao, and the US Virgin Islands have been eliminated from World Cup qualification.

US Virgin Islands

The team I listed for the lead goal scorer may confuse you but is not a typo. The Los Angeles Blues are a team in the USL Pro League which is in the American 3rd tier.

It is slighty funny that the top goal scorer would actually be in a lower American league but that actually is the case right now.

One more minor update here for the status of some various CONCACAF nations; Bermuda, Nicaragua, Dominica, Puerto Rico, and Belize have been eliminated. Panama has advanced to the 3rd round.

I am surprised no one has brought this thread back to life for today. The big news of the day so far is North Korea is officially out of qualification. They are the first team involved in the most recent edition to go out.

CTFC~ced wrote:

Do you know anything about the Mauritian national team Weather and whether they can compete with Liberia?

The answer is no;

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Mauritius have announced their withdrawal from the preliminary competition for the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil™.

Consequently, the team’s scheduled qualifying matches against Liberia on 11 and 15 November 2011 have been cancelled, with the Liberians automatically advancing to the next round, which is due to begin in June 2012.

Liberia will now compete in Group J, facing up to Senegal, Uganda and Angola, as determined at the Preliminary Draw in Rio de Janeiro on 30 July 2011.

Poor CONCACAF has had their qualifying format blowup onto their face. They have one round of fixtures left with nothing to be decided. I do not see a reason for the remaining fixtures to be played and I would be rather sad if someone got hurt here. The teams advancing to the third round are;

El Salvador
Guyana
Panama
Canada
Guatemala
Antigua and Barbuda

Weather130 wrote:One more minor update here for the status of some various CONCACAF nations; Bermuda, Nicaragua, Dominica, Puerto Rico, and Belize have been eliminated. Panama has advanced to the 3rd round.

Who did they play?

Pippo Inzaghi wrote:

Weather130 wrote:One more minor update here for the status of some various CONCACAF nations; Bermuda, Nicaragua, Dominica, Puerto Rico, and Belize have been eliminated. Panama has advanced to the 3rd round.

Who did they play?

Guatemala, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, and Grenada

Since the first leg of round one fixtures were played in Africa I think now would be a good time to post the results now.

Seychelles 0 Kenya 3
Guinea-Bissau 1 Togo 1
Djibouti 0 Namibia 4
Mauritius w/o Liberia
Comoros 0 Mozambique 1
Equatorial Guinea 2 Madagascar 0
Somalia 0 Ethiopia 0
Lesotho 1 Burundi 0
Eritrea 1 Rwanda 1
Swaziland 1 Congo DR 3
São Tomé and Príncipe 0 Congo 5
Chad 1 Tanzania 2

Some good games and matchup being played today and we have some real shockers like right now Lebanon 2-1 South Korea 76'

Time to update the information about the top goal scorers in World Cup Qualification.

Deon McCaulay Belize (Deportes Savio) 11 goals
Peter Byers Antigua and Barbuda (Los Angeles Blues) 8 goals
Lê Công Vinh Vietnam ( Hà Nội F.C.) 7 goals
Park Chu-Young South Korea (Arsenal) 6 goals
Rocky Siberie Curaçao (ASD Pro Settimo) 6 goals
Tamorley Thomas Antigua and Barbuda (Antigua Barracuda FC) 5 goals
Hassan Abdel-Fattah Jordan (Al-Wahdat SC) 5 goals
Lesly St. Fleur Bahamas (Bears F.C.) 5 goals
Jean-Eudes Maurice Haiti (Lens) 5 goals
Blas Pérez Panama (Indios de Ciudad Juárez) 5 goals
Erick Ozuna Dominican Republic (Club Barcelona Atlético) 5 goals
Shinji Okazaki Japan (VfB Stuttgart) 5 goals
Luis Suárez Uruguay (Liverpool) 5 goals

I am disappointed for both Lê Công Vinh and Deon McCaulay Belize for they could have been top scorer.

Lebanon with a shock victory. Will they make it to the next round now?

ahlycotc wrote:Lebanon with a shock victory. Will they make it to the next round now?

Their final game is at the United Arab Emirates, who do not have a single point in this qualifying round so that seems like a 100% yes answer to me.

The winner of South Korea v Kuwait will be the other team to make the next round from this group. If this game ends as a draw South Korea will advance

Now that the opening round of qualifying in Oceania is over it is time to look at the next phase. The top two teams from each group will advance. Who will advance?

Group A
Vanuatu
New Caledonia
Samoa
Tahiti

Group B
Fiji
New Zealand
Solomon Islands
Papua New Guinea

I forgot about all of the Asian World Cup qualifiers that took place today. Today is the last day for this round of the competition. Top two from each group advanced.

Group A
China PR 3-1 Jordan
Iraq 7-1 Singapore

Iraq 15
Jordan 12
Chine PR 9
Singapore 0

Group B
South Korea 2-0 Kuwait
United Arab Emirates 4-2 Lebanon

South Korea 13
Lebanon 10
Kuwait 8
United Arab Emirates 3

Group C
Tajikistan 1-1 North Korea
Japan 0-1 Uzbekistan

Uzbekistan 16
Japan 10
North Korea 7
Tajikistan 1

Group D
Australia 4-2 Saudi Arabia
Oman 2-0 Thailand

Australia 15
Oman 8
Saudi Arabia 6
Thailand 4

Group E
Bahrain 10-0 Indonesia
Iran 2-2 Qatar

Iran 12
Qatar 10
Bahrain 9
Indonesia 0